Lancashire-Preston-1857 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19487

Map Date:

[1857]

Repository reference:

Liverpool RO

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Preston

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD540295

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 5331

Map title:

'Preston in 1774. (Previous to the erection of the first cotton mill) from a map in the possession of Philip Park Esqr. Treasurer to the Corporation by George Lang.'

Comments on map:

In Charles Hardwick, History of the borough of Preston and its environs, in the county of Lancaster, Preston: Worthington, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1857, f.p.429.

Scale:

1:9504*

Map-maker:

George Lang [? author].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.2 x 13.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Roman road.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: 'Chapel'.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO DDK 1549/6 [original: written survey at DDK 1549/1] [Exeter 19929]; Lancashire RO SRL/E02, Preston-Harris ('rolled up in black tube') [transcript]; Lancs RO SRL/MC, Preston, Harris Library, reference library, misc. Preston maps drawer [photocopies of transcript: may be less than complete: 80 x 60 cm, 1:6336*]; Liverpool RO

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Course of Roman road.

Ordnance Survey's

1846-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560